Word: affections
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nearing the end of its herculean first session, the 89th Congress has firmly set in place the foundations of the Great Society. It has adopted legislation that will affect nearly all Americans, but most immediately the poor, the elderly, the undereducated, those who are conspicuously deprived of political representation and economic opportunity. While thus proving itself the most liberal Congress in decades, the 89th has notably refused to act in one area that might have been expected to fit its pattern: it has not approved a single bill that would exclusively benefit organized labor...
...mostly unencumbered by the political possessions and prejudices born of the Depression and its New Deal remedies. Technical, managerial and professional skills entitle new voters to security and affluence and therefore independence. They care most deeply about the quality of their lives, about the matters that most directly affect them. They are often community activists who mean to have a significant say-so in their own affairs In its own instructive stress on individualism, the Republican Party would seem to have among such younger voters a rich field for future bumper crops...
...small-unit actions and the sabotage of Phase 2 adding perhaps massive terrorism in Saigon to try to bring down the government. It is the kind of war they are best at, but "deconcentrating," as U.S. strategists call it, would be a political retreat that might well affect the morale of their troops and their hold on the peasants. Alternatively, they could go into Phase 3 anyway, perhaps even with a mass assault of divisional size on U S units in the hope of discrediting the U.S. presence by a major, one-shot victory. But that might well prove suicidal...
Thayer put his finger on the crucial point-and the paradox of the current Guild strike. A union that was originally founded by and for writers, the essential word men of journalism, was striking primarily over the problems of automation-something that is likely to affect remarkably few writers in the foreseeable future...
...catalogue is immense. But for all his works and all his study, man's understanding of water remains curiously limited. "Considering the forces that man is trying to affect," says Dr. Raymond L. Nace, a U.S. Government hydrologist, "we can say that he has scarcely made a dent." But scientists keep trying. Attempts at weather control, for example, have been as unsuccessful and unreliable as appeals to the rain gods of old, yet researchers continue to seed clouds with silver iodide and Dry Ice, hopeful that they may some day learn to manage what they cannot yet predict...